Sentences with phrase «damnation for»

But evangelicalism asks us to believe that God (from whom we get the concept of being courteous, gentle and forgiving) can not get past those offences and will ultimately get payback by consigning the person to final damnation for eternity (regardless if hell is full of flames or just empty loneliness).

I would be an eternity damnation for me to realize that there is a God when I die if I lived without believing in Him throughout my life time.

But, if I am right in my belief, these very words will be used against you and you WILL suffer eternal damnation for your unbelief.»

Finally, Anselm's thought about the atonement, so centered in an awe - full sense of human sin, always left unanswered the question: If the human creature is subject to eternal damnation for having eaten of one miserable apple, how much more unforgivable is the murder of God's son?

Are they words thrown like rocks and the heavy club of the promise of eternal damnation for disagreement?

They're wrong, in which case, they're headed for hell and damnation for eternity because of their lack of faith.

Hell to mystics is something like «Eternal damnation for awhile» but it's not eternal forever.

Hardly, after man came up with then disregarded as utter nonsense the previous 10,000 or so gods in existence, we decided not to jump on the current bandwagon claiming salvation for the believer and damnation for the rest... Pray tell, what became of all the people who had never the chance to hear of his words / deeds after he came and died?

Not exact matches

The depiction of hell as a place of eternal punishment and torture of sinners has been an unnecessary roadblock to faith for many for it suggests a God who unfairly punishes sins of 70 years on earth as warranting eternal damnation.

I Corinthians 11:29 states, «For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.»

I'm just going ignore for now the fact that you offer no evidence for the existence of damnation or a soul to be damaged.

If Love is God's primary characteristic, why are 4 of the 10 Commandments demands for obsequious submission upon penalty of eternal damnation?

Emerald... in a way though, if you believed something to be true... like really believed... no doubt, for instance, the only way for others to be happy or not suffer eternal damnation (or whatever), wouldn't you feel wrong by not trying to convince others.

Just as conservatives denounce the Westboro baptist church and their tactics, I hope that «liberals» everywhere denounce those who use hateful threats of violence, death, and damnation as tactics for furthering the liberal agenda (or ANY agenda at that)

It's still a theological inconsistency of fatal proportions (no pun intended)-- God sets a man along a path aligned with God's plan, knowing the results of God's plan will cause the man to commit a «mortal» sin to end his terrible remorse (which wouldn't have happened were it not for playing his part as God wanted him to do), resulting in eternal damnation, and God allows it to happen?

Especially, since, according to the bible, the penalty for non - belief is eternal damnation.

Though still unpersuaded that Lancelot is a masterpiece, I am now convinced that Percy is to be commended for what he has attempted; namely, to confront us mercilessly with the nature of damnation in our time.

Having experienced his own damnation, Lance is capable of hearing the gospel, however little he presently feels the need for it.

So I Listened to all of his sermons read all of his blogs and than decided to leave my number to see if he would really call as he says on his web site, With in 2 hours I recieved a call and DR. Collins never rushed me off the telephone answered all my questions, And After just that one call you can tell he loves and believes in what he does, He wont be for everyone, Because he does talk about damnation and what it takes to get to heaven, And its not from giving ministers our money > I watched the you tube videos of many and he is just for me, everyone has a choice but in listening to his sermons and reading his blogs and than the telephone call this guy is the real deal.

One question I often ask people is: If you have a child, what would it take for you to condemn that child to eternal damnation?

As St Paul warns the Church of Corinth: «For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself.»

I've decided that I'll be good and do what is right for the sake of goodness and not because of the fear of eternal damnation or the anticipation of an eternal reward that does not exist.

I think that in an important sense one can both «hope for all» and yet hold to «the damnation of some» as a doctrine.

Once the young apologist, I suddenly found myself wrestling with the notion that most of my fellow human beings would suffer eternal damnation in hell for being born at the wrong place and the wrong time.

Mr Hawking need a personal revelation from God in order for him to believe and if not He endangering himself to eternal damnation.

In Inferno XXIX, Dante emphasizes this point by comparing counterfeiters, victims of a plague - like ailment in their eternal damnation, to those plague victims on the island of Aegina described by Ovid, who were replaced by «ant - people» — «secondo che i poeti hanno per fermo» (as the poets hold for certain).

For years I struggled with the idea that conservative evangelical Christians had a monopoly on truth and that everyone else in the world faced likely damnation.

My own conviction is that in all this we simply have a rejection in time, a condemnation for the moment, not eternal damnation.

That wasn't the case, however, for another part of Stark's theory — his claim that males who shun faith and worship services do so because they get a kick out of risking hellfire and damnation, or at least the loss of a heavenly afterlife.

For ye devour widows» houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: therefore, ye shall receive the greater damnatiFor ye devour widows» houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: therefore, ye shall receive the greater damnatifor a pretense make long prayers: therefore, ye shall receive the greater damnation.

The ancient Romans believed in eternal damnation, and so when Jerome translated it infernus, he was assuming that there would be an eternal hell for sinners, something that Jews never taught.

The discrepancy between the orthodox teaching of an eternity of punishment for those predestined to damnation and the belief in God's love is one of the too rarely examined problems in traditional Christian doctrine.

Later theology for Whitehead, hence, distorted Jesus vision of «gentleness and mercy» by an «old ferocious God..., the Oriental despot, the Pharaoh, the Hitler; with everything to enforce obedience, from infant damnation and eternal punishment,» Price (1954) 176.

I just recognize that in Scripture, the word «destruction» is not a synonym for «hell» or «damnation.»

Through my continual searching of the Christian faith, I quickly learned I could no longer accept Christianity merely as a tool for avoiding eternal damnation.

That «sheol» or sprit world afterlife was in fact an Old Testament and even Torah - based belief and within that spiritual realm of sheol those spirits (all the spirits who were once living) were in either a state of happiness or in a state of limited ability to obtain happiness, or in other words a state of damnation or being in like a spiritual prison, which would later be further described in the New Testament (which the earliest figured written versions of the New Testament were written in Greek for newly gentile converts) as hell.

As for eternal damnation, hell, and all that — it's far too complex for me to weigh in... I think hell exists for those who separate themselves from God, but we know from the Book of Acts that Christians were having themselves baptized in the name of the dead.

Remember, your assertion is that the price for choosing wrong is eternal damnation.

It's what I choose to bank my eternal life and / or damnation on - TOLERANCE and appreciation for people who bring goodness to this world but I understand that won't work for everyone.

Next year will see at least two major theological novels: Exit 36, by Robert Capon, and Protocol for a Damnation, by Peter Berger; the Capon chronicle has already been bought as a mass - market paperback for five figures.

(My purpose is not to show that a necessary or infallible line of progress exists, but simply to establish that, for Mankind as a whole, a way of progress is offered and awaits us, analogous to that which the individual can not reject without falling into sin and damnation.)

So I wanted to write a book which explains Romans 9 in a way that presents God in light of Jesus Christ, in a way that does not make God responsible for hating Esau, hardening Pharaoh's heart, and condemning a large majority of mankind to everlasting damnation in hell.

For any convincing expression of «salvation» has to be forged on the anvil of the peculiar damnation that is its negative backdrop.

While I disagree with your assessment that by choosing to save some God was necessarily choosing others for damnation, I do recognize that there is a tension there that is often seen as a matter of semantics (shown by your use of quotation marks around the word «choosing»).

for ye devour widows» houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.»

For some people, Memphis, Tennessee, conjures visions of southern religion: folks hootin» and hollerin» about God, eternal damnation and hell; sweating preachers thundering on about sex, drinking and Democrats.

If all are damned from the beginning and the only way out is to be «chosen» by God, then he by default is «choosing» those who remain for damnation.

I believe there is a difference between choosing some for damnation and choosing to not save some from damnation.

I don't know, Sean, I am an atheist and I have a GREAT deal of respect for both spirituality and for theism, insomuch as it is practiced in a way that does not assume that, as and atheist, I am condemned to eternal damnation or that I have no morals or sense of right or wrong.

While I am in sympathy with your plight and suffering you endured while traveling in the Middle East, if you are truly a present Christian you should be a follower of Christ's words and life and be concerned for men who face eternal damnation as Jesus taught.